Episode 39 - It's The News

Summary

Interrupted by Matt Jones – Episode 39: It's The News (May 21, 2026)

Episode Overview

In this lively episode, Matt Jones, host of Kentucky Sports Radio and “Interrupted by Matt Jones,” is joined by regulars Billy and Drew for their semi-regular “It’s the News” roundtable. With primary elections just concluded across Kentucky and several other states, the crew dives into the biggest stories of the week, ranging from post-election fallout and wild political developments to viral college graduations, current event oddities, and a hearty helping of sports and food nostalgia. The conversation weaves in humor, personal anecdotes, and classic Kentucky perspective, making news both approachable and entertaining.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Kentucky and National Political Election Recap

• [04:00] Kentucky Primary Overview

  • Several GOP incumbents who opposed Trump (notably Rep. Thomas Massie) lost primaries.
  • Mitch McConnell’s retiring seat: Andy Barr wins the Republican primary; Charles Booker wins the Democratic primary over Amy McGrath.
  • Amy McGrath’s continued defeats spark banter about political persistence:
    “It’s just her brand, right?” – Drew [09:20]

• [05:01] Thomas Massie's Loss

  • Jones and team dissect how Massie’s positions (Epstein files transparency, opposition to increased Israeli military support, limits on Iran war powers) reflected popular opinion but failed with older voters.
  • Ed Gowaran’s campaign was notably low-key:
    “His watch party looked like a Hampton Inn continental breakfast… If you win literally the most expensive primary in the history of the United States, you would spring for a Marriott for sure.” – Matt Jones [08:22]

• [13:00] Lexington and Louisville Mayoral Races

  • Linda Gordon wins Lexington mayoral primary but under 50%; discussion turns to how Billy voted for “O’Neill” based on appearance alone.
  • Craig Greenberg wins Louisville mayoral primary with 71%.

• [15:18] Georgia & Alabama Races

  • Mike Collins and former Tennessee coach Derek Dooley in a Senate GOP runoff in Georgia.
  • Tommy Tuberville wins Alabama GOP gubernatorial primary:
    “Which is good that we need to have the stupidest governor in America in Alabama. That fits well.” – Matt Jones [16:49]

• Underlying Political Satire

  • The team riffs on SEC football coaches-turned-politicians, the power of Trump endorsements, and modern electoral tribalism where 100% loyalty trumps (pun intended) any nuance.

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2. Trump’s ‘Anti-Weaponization’ Fund

• [19:23] DOJ’s $1.8bn Fund and Trump’s Lawsuits
  • Trump creates a new $1.8 billion fund for Americans “victimized” by alleged federal weaponization and drops his IRS lawsuit for damages over his leaked taxes.
  • Critical discussion on the opacity and potential for abuse of this settlement:
    • “He can hand it to his son. No oversight. …That’s crazy to me.” – Matt Jones [21:43]
    • “That can’t hold up in court… just do whatever you want, you’re good.” – Drew [22:37]
  • Noted that January 6 defendants can apply for compensation; JD Vance criticized for noncommittal response.
  • Apprehension about future generations judging this period of American politics:
    “Our kids will read about this time in history and go, what in the world is going—went on?” – Matt Jones [23:36]

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3. International News: Ebola Outbreak in Central Africa

• [27:24] Outbreak Details
  • Ebola outbreak (Budi Baggio strain) in the DRC with 500 suspected cases, 130 deaths, and a U.S. case confirmed.
  • The group reflects on media overhype, public health, and the vital role of coordinated global organizations like WHO.
  • Memorable moment:
    “That’s the most dangerous country in the world. And also now they have Ebola, so not a lot of direct flights.” – Matt Jones [28:14]

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4. Nashville Wins 2030 Super Bowl

• [30:16] NFL in Nashville
  • New $2.2bn Nissan Stadium, translucent roof, major economic/cultural win.
  • Drew psyched: “Even though it will be utter chaos… I'm very excited.” [30:36]
  • Notable that Nashville celebrities and entertainers (Nate Bargatze, Eric Church, Jim Nance) are on the Super Bowl committee.

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5. Viral College Graduation Fails & AI Woes

• [32:48] AI at Commencement Ceremonies
  • Glendale Community College erases dozens of graduate names during AI-powered roll call, causing outrage.
    “You graduated after four years, and you spent all this money, and here’s your nice picture…” – Matt Jones [33:25]
  • University of Arizona: Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt booed for AI-praising speech; larger conversation about students’ fear of AI displacing jobs and universities’ tone-deaf choices for commencement speakers.
  • Lighthearted Shaq note:
    “They introduced him as Shaquille ‘I hate Charles Barkley’ O’Neal.” – Drew [37:48]

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6. Sports & Pop Culture Diversions

• [39:24] Impromptu WNBA Team Naming Game
  • Matt and Drew try to collectively name all 15 WNBA teams—good-natured struggle and confusion, especially with new expansion teams like the Toronto Tempo.
  • Commentary on how hard it is to keep up with team changes in women’s pro sports:
    “It feels like the franchises go in and out a lot…they come and they go.” – Matt Jones [39:32]

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7. Air Show Accident & Military Air Shows

• [45:12] Idaho Air Show Collision
  • All crew unharmed after two expensive jets collide midair.
  • Personal anecdotes: Drew recounts his Blue Angels ride training and the reality of ejection safety.
  • The crew debates whether risk in air shows is justified by the entertainment:
    “It just feels very dangerous for the pleasure it gives people, sitting here eating my corn dog.” – Matt Jones [48:21]

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8. Gas Prices & Iran War Authorization Stalemate

• [51:27] Gas Prices Skyrocket
  • Average national price: $4.55/gallon, up $1.60 since February.
  • President’s military action in Iran exceeds the 60-day War Powers limit; several Senators don’t show up to vote due to election campaigning.
  • The panel laments political cowardice:
    “Conscience as to whether or not we should send Americans to war is based on whether or not you win the primary. …how pathetic is that?” – Matt Jones [53:17]

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9. Pizza Hut Nostalgia & Mexican Restaurants in Small-Town America

• [56:29] Pizza Hut’s Retro Revamp
  • Company redecorating with classic checkered tablecloths, red vinyl booths, Pac-Man machines, salad bars, and red plastic cups.
  • Reminiscence about the pizza buffet era and “Book It!” reading incentives.
  • On the proliferation of Mexican restaurants:
    “In small towns…the Mexican restaurants, there are like seven in Middlesboro. And that has been an amazing cultural change.” – Matt Jones [60:19]
  • Humorous speculation about the universal “Speedy Gonzalez” combo on all rural Kentucky Mexican menus.

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10. India’s Road Accident Good Samaritan Program

• [62:33] Paying Citizens to Help at Crash Sites
  • India now compensates bystanders with 25,000 rupees ($250) for immediate accident assistance.
  • The group discusses U.S. good samaritan law—no legal duty to help, but legal exposure if you negligently attempt.
  • Wry observations about fraud potential and whether it might encourage risky amateur “assistance.”

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Memorial Quotes & Moments

• On political loyalty:
  “The only thing [Trump] cares about is if you like him in that moment. In that moment, he'll even forgive you...” – Matt Jones [06:32]

• On Amy McGrath's campaign:
  "She did a... 'tune in for my State of the Union reaction on the Internet.'...Would you like to guess how many people were watching... live?"
  "Four. And I was one." – Matt Jones [11:03]

• On outrageous DOJ fund:
  "He can hand it to his son. No oversight. ...That’s crazy to me." – Matt Jones [21:43]

• On aging out of news:
  "You could have moved, maybe you could have gotten [O’Neill] in the runoff. Mario already tried to help Darnell in the picture." – Matt Jones [18:56]

• On Pizza Hut culture:
  “When I was in middle school, birthday parties, the cool kids had them at the Pizza Hut…” – Matt Jones [57:32]

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• 02:14 – Opening banter, Billy’s “top nine” news
• 04:00 – Kentucky/US primary election results, fallout analysis
• 19:23 – Trump’s ‘weaponization fund’ and IRS lawsuit settlement
• 27:24 – Ebola outbreak in Central Africa
• 30:16 – Nashville wins 2030 Super Bowl bid
• 32:48 – AI glitched graduations & Eric Schmidt’s Arizona debacle
• 39:24 – WNBA team naming challenge
• 45:12 – Idaho air show jet collision, Blue Angels stories
• 51:27 – Gas prices, War Powers Act, and Congressional votes
• 56:29 – Pizza Hut’s nostalgic makeover & Mexican restaurants in rural Kentucky
• 62:33 – India’s Good Samaritan crash aid scheme, US legal side notes

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Overall Tone & Takeaways

With his trademark mix of sarcasm, regional insight, and candid political commentary, Matt Jones keeps the show both accessible and wickedly funny. The dynamic between Matt, Billy, and Drew weaves pop culture, sports, Kentucky inside jokes, biting satire, and genuine concern for today’s headline issues. Whether you want election context, news-of-the-weird, or a trip down Pizza Hut memory lane, this episode delivers a playful yet thoughtful snapshot of early summer 2026 in America.

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[Matt Jones]

It's episode 39 of the interrupted by Matt Jones podcast. We are on the heels of a election night across Kentucky and other states and you know it's impossible to to really keep up with what all is going on in the world. So that's why we do news. It's the news with Billy our Sports Drew is Here, Drew, you know, you have. It's been a little while, so you probably don't know any news.

[Drew]

No, not at all. Don't have a single clue what's going on.

[Matt Jones]

So what's happened in the world, Billy? Yeah, there's not very few things.

[Drew]

Okay.

[Matt Jones]

The good thing is it's always very calm and stable in the world. But, Billy, how many news items do you have?

[Billy]

We got to nine this time. So there are.

[Matt Jones]

What is it that keeps you from getting 10? Because 10 right there. 10 is the amount that we try to do, but you like to stop at 8 or 9. Is it just. You just don't want to get to 10?

[Billy]

I peter out. I just work really hard on these, and then by 8 or 9, I'm just kind of.

[Matt Jones]

We've talked a lot recently about the history of words. Where do you think I peter out comes from?

[Drew]

It threw me off when he said it. I don't hear that.

[Matt Jones]

I mean, I've heard. I've heard that phrase.

[Drew]

Yeah, I know it exists, but I don't. I don't hear it.

[Matt Jones]

But, like, there's not a verb to. Peter.

[Billy]

No, I think it was one of your Appalachian phrases that I know, but where do you.

[Matt Jones]

Where do you think that came from? He petered out.

[Drew]

I don't have a clue. I know it exists.

[Matt Jones]

That could have been your 10th. That could have been your 10th topic.

[Drew]

I think we do a random 10th topic, maybe.

[Matt Jones]

Didn't you.

[Drew]

You pick one randomly from Twitter last time? Matt, we got to get to 10. Who wants to listen to a top nine?

[Matt Jones]

Nobody. Nobody does top nine. Well, that's okay. We'll do nine. And just know that people are not gonna know the 10th most important thing. Let's get started. What's up first? It's the news.

[Billy]

Well, you alluded to it, Matt. A Tuesday earlier this week was primary election day in six different states, including Kentucky. Some takeaways. Several Republicans who have opposed Trump lost their primary races, including Representative Thomas Massie losing to Ed Gallerine. Also in Kentucky, Representative Andy Barr won the Republican primary for the retiring Mitch McConnell seat. Charles Booker won the the Democrat primary over Amy McGrath. That's what's happening in Kentucky.

[Matt Jones]

Why didn't you say Democratic? Why did you say Democrat?

[Billy]

I froze. I didn't write down the correct words.

[Drew]

Petered out.

[Billy]

There it was Peter again.

[Matt Jones]

I mean, that would be like going the Republic primary.

[Billy]

Well, I can redo it if you'd like.

[Matt Jones]

No, no, no, you're good. You're good.

[Drew]

So what you meant.

[Matt Jones]

So those Were big. And then you had the guy, the senator in Louisiana.

[Billy]

Yes. He lost his election as well. Another one that opposed Trump. I have some other takeaways, including in Georgia, Representative Mike Collins and former football coach Derek Dooley are headed to a Senate Republican primary runoff.

[Matt Jones]

That's true. All right, let's. Before you get to your other ones, let's do the Kentucky one first. So Thomas Massie lost. Thomas Massie voted with The Republicans, like, 95% of the time, but he countered Trump on the Epstein files and giving money for the war between basically giving money to Israel. And then he was against Trump doing the war in Iran without congressional approval. I think three positions that the majority of Americans, I think have. Right. I mean, I think the majority of Americans are like, we should just release the Epstein fight. Would you agree with that? Yeah.

[Drew]

Let the chips fall.

[Matt Jones]

I think the majority of Americans are like, I don't know if I want to keep spending money on helping Israel in Palestine. Is that right?

[Drew]

Yeah. We could use a little help our way right now.

[Matt Jones]

And then I don't know if a majority of people don't think we should be doing the Iran thing, but there's certainly a lot of people. I don't know if it's a majority or not, but that was enough to get him out. And he's gone to Ed somebody. No, no one knew who that was six months ago.

[Drew]

Couldn't believe, like, in learning about it, like, he wouldn't show up for a debate. Like, it was almost like he's. He was ducking the smoke. Like Massey's, like, let's debate. Let's do this the right way. You know how politics work.

[Matt Jones]

Like, four years ago, this guy was like, he, like, you know, they are. He. He spoke out against. He quit the Republican Party in 2016, Ed Gowaran, because of Trump. And know what? Like, is that not weird? And then, you know, it just goes to show, this is the lesson from Donald Trump. The only thing he cares about is if you like him in that moment. In that moment, he'll even forgive you. He'll. He will forgive you as long as you. Yeah. I mean, Mark Cuban was up on stage with him the other day, like, because of pharmacy things. Like, he just. His question is, do you like me or not? Check yes or no. And that's it.

[Drew]

On the. The Massey loss, you know, I don't follow this stuff closely, but I've never seen anything where it was such an. Like an age demographic thing. Everyone I know, even people on the other side of the aisle Are poor Massey in that race, and they're all under the age of, you know.

[Matt Jones]

Did you see more case, but did you see the video of Ed. Ed's campaign party? No. You got to look that up. Look up Ed Gowering real quick. Look up on. On social media. Look up his watch.

[Drew]

Party was it at a Cracker Barrel?

[Matt Jones]

It looked to be in someone's kitchen. And it looked like they. Everyone there was like 90.

[Drew]

Well, that's kind of how the voting turned out.

[Matt Jones]

I mean, but this is the thing. I was thinking. This was the most expensive primary in the history of the United States, and he won. And yet he booked the party. Looks to be in someone's house. And it wasn't even that big a

[Drew]

house with all the money behind him. I would have thought fireworks, maybe Kid Rock.

[Matt Jones]

Did you see the video?

[Drew]

I'm searching it now on the fly. Look at that.

[Matt Jones]

They're just in a kitchen right there. See that?

[Drew]

Oh, that looks like a Hampton Inn continental breakfast here. Will you throw me a bagel in the toaster?

[Matt Jones]

Let's celebrate. If you would think if you win literally the most expensive primary in the history of the United States, you would spring for a Marriott for sure.

[Drew]

Did they run out of money with their ads? Maybe.

[Matt Jones]

So maybe they ran out of money and they're like, this is the only place we can get.

[Drew]

I did notice Massey was getting some digs in on his concession speech when he tried to call him and couldn't get a hold of him.

[Matt Jones]

I tried to call him and he was in Israel. That was like, whoa.

[Drew]

Yeah, get some digs in. That is a sad celebration party.

[Matt Jones]

The saddest celebration party I've ever seen in my life.

[Drew]

Looks like they only have one thing,

[Matt Jones]

of apple juice for everyone to split too. Well, so that guy won. Amy McGrath lost again. Amy, Come on, Amy. What you going to do at this point?

[Drew]

It's just her brand, right?

[Matt Jones]

So you think she should just run in perpetuity?

[Drew]

I think until she wins some. I mean, I don't care if she's running for pta.

[Matt Jones]

Well, they say water holds its level.

[Drew]

She could come up, run for my HOA leader, whatever that constable. Yep, something. But at this point, you're in too deep to give up. Like, you just got to keep running. Keep running, find something else. You'll find your lane. But it was said kind of.

[Matt Jones]

Was it sad?

[Drew]

Well, sad in the way of you like Charles Booker. No, I mean sad. And like you kind of roll your eyes like no one's making you do this.

[Matt Jones]

The Saddest thing to me. And listen, this is someone who got me fired from a TV show. So, I mean, I don't have strong support for her, but I will say something that was sad that I just. So that I wouldn't be mean. I didn't bring up, but I have to bring up now that the election is over. She did a. And she hyped it up. I'm going to do a post State of the Union reaction. When Trump gave the State of the Union and she was like, tune in for my State of the Union reaction on the Internet. And I was like, I wonder how many people are interested kind of in her campaign? So I actually tuned in three minutes into her reaction. Would you like to guess how many people were watching live on YouTube? Her state of the Union reaction?

[Drew]

I will give her benefit of the doubt on three digits and say, 101 people.

[Matt Jones]

Okay, 101. What about you?

[Billy]

I was going to be close to 100, but I'll go under 95.

[Matt Jones]

Four. And I was one.

[Drew]

And the person running it has to be one. They're checking in, making sure it's working.

[Matt Jones]

There were four. Four people on it. Four.

[Drew]

I think at that point, if you're her, you see the number four, and you're like, cut it off. We can't do. This is worse than anything I could say.

[Matt Jones]

When I do live streams, when I used to do periscopes, my magic. My magic number was 3000. When it got under 3000, I thought, all right, time for me to wrap it up. That means people are kind of, like, done. 3,000. Good number. When I do Twitter spaces, I'll be like, thousand. If I had four, I would just

[Drew]

cry at that point. Is it a public livestream or a FaceTime with just three of your friends? I think that's just a FaceTime.

[Matt Jones]

That's that great line that TJ Bisner had years ago when a guy kept tweeting about me and him. We were on a road trip and how much we stunk. And then TJ looked at him and he had one follower. And TJ Goes, you have one follower. Just text him.

[Drew]

It's the same thing.

[Matt Jones]

It's the same thing. So. So he lost. Then your guy, Dimbo.

[Drew]

My guy.

[Matt Jones]

Okay, well, you said you'd seen him with a megaphone.

[Drew]

That's one thing I know about him. He'd be in the media and yelling at people, saying, I'm Dimbo. Hey.

[Matt Jones]

Hey.

[Drew]

Yeah, I don't think he said it exactly like that, but his ad worked more than Others, because I at least knew that he had a megaphone.

[Matt Jones]

He won kind of an upset against Sherry Lynn Stevenson. So Dimbo moves on to go against Alvarado in the O bracket matchup. It's a good matchup. And then in the mayor's races, Linda Gordon won, but she got under 50%. So you think there's any chance she loses to the other person in the next. That's for mayor of Lexington?

[Drew]

Yeah, I'd say unlikely, but the ice storm really, really hurt her.

[Matt Jones]

People are still. Did you vote?

[Drew]

I did.

[Matt Jones]

Who'd you vote for?

[Billy]

Not Linda Gordon.

[Matt Jones]

Well, I mean, there were other names.

[Billy]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

Did you vote for the guy that is Mario's friend?

[Billy]

Who was Mario's friend?

[Matt Jones]

Mario has a friend that. He was just like, I got a buddy that's running for mayor. But he said it like, I got a buddy that's eating wings. Like, he was just like, I got a buddy that's running for mayor. And I was like, who is it? And he goes, his name's Darnell.

[Billy]

I don't think it was Darnell I voted for.

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Who did you vote for?

[Billy]

O'. Neill. Who is. I voted for. Who did not win. Linda Gordon went through.

[Drew]

Who.

[Matt Jones]

Who. Who's o'? Neill?

[Billy]

One of the other candidates for mayor.

[Matt Jones]

But did they come in the top two? Because two moved on.

[Drew]

No, no. Raquel Carter was the other one. Yeah, it was Raquel, because I've been told she lives in my neighborhood, so

[Matt Jones]

maybe I did just.

[Drew]

No clowns.

[Matt Jones]

Did you choose to vote for o'? Neill? What was your criteria?

[Billy]

He was not Linda Gordon.

[Matt Jones]

Okay. But there were eight other people you could have voted for Darnell.

[Billy]

I just did a quick look through of the. Of the people and what they looked like. Honestly, Just their presentations. Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

Hang on.

[Drew]

Was he wearing a quarter zip?

[Matt Jones]

You voted for the mayor of Lexington based on appearance?

[Billy]

Yes.

[Matt Jones]

And you chose a man. And what. What. What was it about o' Neal that made you think he would do a good job?

[Billy]

Well, I was just.

[Matt Jones]

Still a first name.

[Billy]

I don't remember it, but I think

[Drew]

if you vote for someone, knowing their first name should be a big part of it.

[Matt Jones]

Greg.

[Billy]

I had to go vote and do my duty, and I just.

[Matt Jones]

You didn't learn his first name?

[Billy]

No, but he didn't. He didn't pull through. Anyway, so we're on to a.

[Matt Jones]

You know what place he came in?

[Billy]

I don't. I did look to see if he was one of the two, and unfortunately was not.9%.

[Drew]

He got 9% of the vote. So you're part of the nine.

[Matt Jones]

You part of that. You part. You're part of a growing movement.

[Drew]

Mario's friend was 4%. Who is last as money got 3%.

[Matt Jones]

Also, even the worst candidate got 3%. Well, that's good.

[Drew]

Then there was one. Huffman was 7% and then Carter had 28 to finish second behind.

[Matt Jones]

Okay. Well. And then my friend Craig Greenberg won in Louisville. He got 71%. But he still. They still go to the top two. So he still will have to do another one. So those were the big, I think, Kentucky stories. Now, you mentioned. What was the one you said?

[Billy]

I just have a couple more.

[Matt Jones]

What was the first thing you said?

[Billy]

Mike Collins vs. Former football coach Derek Dooley.

[Matt Jones]

And who won the. Who won Mike Collins?

[Billy]

It's a Senate Republican primary runoff, so I'm not sure who's.

[Matt Jones]

You can't vote for Derek Doolittle. Why would the coach at Tennessee that failed run for Senate in Georgia?

[Drew]

I think he was an analyst at Alabama and he left that to run

[Matt Jones]

for Senate in a state that was not where he coached either time.

[Drew]

No.

[Matt Jones]

So like I'm trying to use what the equivalent of that would be. That would be like if Rich Rodriguez ran for Senate in Kentucky. Right. Wouldn't that be strange?

[Drew]

Yeah. And also, I know we've already have Tuberville, but what is it with the sec?

[Matt Jones]

I don't know.

[Drew]

Like, Pearl considered it.

[Matt Jones]

Coaches like. Well, I guess because Tuberville 1, he's going to be the governor of Alabama, I guess they think. But it's what's odd to me is it's coaches that don't win. Yeah.

[Drew]

Will Muschamp is going to run the next cycle.

[Matt Jones]

Like, I mean, the good coaches are not running. So it would be like, you know, Chris Mack running for governor in Kentucky.

[Drew]

No. Different state. He's got to go to a different state.

[Matt Jones]

Chris Mack run for governor of Indiana. Well. And people just go, why? So Derek Dooley is in the runoff, but he will probably lose to that Collins do. Right. What's your other two.

[Billy]

You mentioned Tommy Tuberville. He won the Republican primary for governor in Alabama and he's a clear favorite to win that.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, he'll win. And which is good that we need to have the stupidest governor in America in Alabama. That fits well.

[Billy]

And finally, Governor Josh Shapiro won the Democratic nominee in his state and he will take on Treasurer Stacey Garrity in the fall in Pennsylvania. I bring that up because you mentioned the possible.

[Matt Jones]

That's interesting that the treasurer decided to run against the sitting Governor, Why would they do that?

[Billy]

Well, she's republican.

[Matt Jones]

Oh, she's a republican. Okay. Well, that makes sense. That makes more sense. Well, exciting election night was. And then. Yeah. We will keep you up to date with all the latest results.

[Drew]

Do you sit at home, like, watch them coming in?

[Matt Jones]

No, I was. Last night I went to dinner and so I didn't get to follow it. Normally I do enjoy following it, but I didn't get to. So I just turned when I went to dinner. I wanted to see who would win for county judge executive in bell county because of the fight over the ambulances and they kicked out the incumbent. And then I wanted to see if Amy mcgrath and Charles booker won and Charles won. I didn't see. Unfortunately, our guy, the horse guy, Dale romans. He did really well in Louisville, but like everywhere else, no one people just didn't know who he was.

[Drew]

Yeah, huge name in horse racing. Didn't really have it.

[Matt Jones]

I didn't notice a woman. The woman that came in third, I think in the republican or fourth in the republican senate primary. Her name was val something and I liked her nickname. Val parentheses. Dr. Val. And then her name.

[Drew]

Val. Dr. Val. Okay.

[Matt Jones]

She wanted people to know I went to med school. Do not just call me val.

[Drew]

It's like she's already correcting you before you've even said it.

[Matt Jones]

I didn't go to six years of grad school for you just to call me val.

[Billy]

That'd get my attention, doctor.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, see, I mean, you're picking people

[Drew]

based on what they're wearing in their photos, so I would think their diploma was presentable. I got to see what your boy o' Neill was weari.

[Matt Jones]

Was it so impressive about o'?

[Billy]

Neill? Let me look him back up and see.

[Matt Jones]

I bet o' neill o' neill might find out he had. This was the most high profile endorsement he had in the entire campaign.

[Drew]

He's probably thinking I put that picture up, didn't think twice about it. And I've got people out there picking

[Matt Jones]

me pictures out there campaigning for o'. Neill. You could have moved. Maybe you could have gotten him in the runoff. Mario already tried to help Darnell in the picture.

[Drew]

I see at ballad pedia, he's wearing a nice white, crisp, maybe too much starch. It looks very crisp with a pink tie. Is that what so jumped out?

[Billy]

I mean, if somebody's dressed well, then yeah, it's going to appeal to me a little bit on the same photo I found earlier.

[Matt Jones]

All right, well, what's the next piece of news? Number two.

[Billy]

All Right. Moving on, Trump announced earlier this week the creation of the Anti weaponization fund. The DOJ has established a near $1.8 billion fund to compensate Americans who claim they were victimized by previous weaponization of the federal government. As part of this deal, Trump is dropping his lawsuit with the irs, in which he sought billions of dollars in damages after his tax returns were leaked. But, Matt, I saw you had some comments online.

[Matt Jones]

I mean, this is the. The problem is nothing matters anymore to people who like Trump. But if this is egregious. I mean, this is egregious. You take one. First of all, it's a very devious. But look at. So he sues the IRS, says, You harass me. $10 billion lawsuit. Of course, the IRS is run by him. So he sues himself. Now, the problem is, I think he wanted a settlement to get money. But when you sue someone, a settlement has to be approved by a judge. Right? So if you. If I sue you, Billy, and we want to settle it, we still have to get the judge to approve it. Now, the judge almost always approves it because it's like, my name's Bennett and I ain't in it. But if they think it's egregious, they'll say no. So the judge. I think they thought the judge was going to say no to the settlement. So he goes, I'll dismiss it if you just give me this money privately. Well, first of all, that goes against. Like, you're not that alone. Leave Trump out of it. That's not how this is supposed to work. Like, when you sue somebody, there's a legal process. So he's going against the legal process to start, then $1.7 billion. It's a lot of money. And he's going. He's going to create a panel where he picks the people, and they get to decide with no oversight who gets this money. They can hand it to anyone with no oversight, so he can hand it to his son. No oversight. And because it's not like, because it's not part of the lawsuit, they don't even necessarily have to disclose who they give it to.

[Drew]

That's a whole lot of money.

[Matt Jones]

A lot of money. And then they're saying that the people who stormed the Capitol on January 6th can apply for it. And JD Vance, what a wuss, Gets up there, and they say, well, are you willing to exclude the people who beat up officers?

[Drew]

That should be an easy.

[Matt Jones]

And he just goes, well, I mean, it's a case by case. We can't make any Predeterminations. What. I mean, it's. It's. In an administration full of insanity, this might be the craziest thing they've done, and yet the only way it'll be stopped is if Congress doesn't allow it to happen. And forgive me for not having confidence that that'll happen.

[Drew]

Wasn't there something in there about he can't forever. Like, they can't look into his taxes or his family.

[Matt Jones]

They said that Trump, that the IRS can't look into him, his family, or anything he's associated with forever. Now, that won't hold up in court. Like, there's no way that'll hold up in court.

[Drew]

Like, I don't care if you have a MAGA flag on the back of your pontoon boat. You have to look at that and be like, that's. That doesn't seem right.

[Matt Jones]

Forever.

[Drew]

Forever. We're just not going to look at anything you're doing for Eternity Forever, so just do whatever you want. You're good. Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

When you get out of print, when you get out, just rob banks. It's unbelievable. And the fact that now, granted, I put that out, you know, most people, the only way they can respond to it is go. You didn't say nothing in Barack Obama. First of all, Barack Obama didn't do anything like this. But secondly, people believe, like, you're not allowed to criticize anything unless you've criticized everything that's ever happened.

[Drew]

We're talking about this right here in front of us right now.

[Matt Jones]

This right here. Don't be like, when John Tyler did this, you didn't say a word. Where were you at Garfield? Nowhere. I just. It's unbelievable. We're going to look back in history, Bill. You've heard me say this. Our kids will read about this time in history and go, what in the world is going. Went on? Like, I read about. Have you ever. You know the movie Gangs in New York?

[Drew]

Oh, yeah. Big fan.

[Matt Jones]

If you read about what New York was like during that period of time where basically you just bought off City hall and you could kill people in the streets, and as long as you paid Boss Tweed, you could just, whatever, run amok. You read that and go, how'd that happen? Well, I don't know, Drew. I can see it.

[Drew]

If we get on the other side of this, a lot of young people are gonna be like, what were my grandparents doing?

[Matt Jones]

Well, yeah. For what?

[Billy]

Like, we're saying that now.

[Matt Jones]

For what purpose? I mean, the whole. I thought the whole principle of MAGA was all right. No New wars, False. Release the Epstein files.

[Drew]

False. Get these gas prices down.

[Matt Jones]

Gas prices down. False. Inflation down. False. I mean, I guess the only promise he's kept is illegal immigration, but I mean, yeah, whatever. It's not. I don't know. Am I wrong? I mean, I'm yapping. Do you all disagree?

[Drew]

Not at all. The. I mean, the 1.8 billion is wild, but the can't be investigated forever is the craziest thing I think I've ever heard.

[Billy]

And then weaponization of the federal government.

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What is.

[Billy]

What does that mean?

[Matt Jones]

I mean, they argue that, like, people were investigated because they were public. I'm not saying it's not that there hasn't been somebody that politics has played a role in them being investigated. That's surely true. By the way, he's doing that right now to people. James Comey and I mean he's doing that right now. So if you think it's wrong, then you're doing it. But be that as it may, the idea that you could hand someone money and there's no overs. The government can just hand someone $20 million, no oversight like that's. That's crazy to me.

[Drew]

Especially with how broke we are.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, I mean, we. In the fact that there'll be people who cheer it on. Yes. Give my money away, please.

[Drew]

Yeah. Build another golf course that I'll never play here.

[Matt Jones]

See, I mean, you remember the guy that wore the fur and all that during January 6th.

[Drew]

You're going to get a check.

[Matt Jones]

He's going to walk away with like $10 million.

[Drew]

Imagine he's got more fur.

[Matt Jones]

And guess what? That incentivizes people. While I'll do it again.

[Drew]

Yeah, that's the crazy thing. They'll see that, you know, people got rewarded for doing that and think, well, I could do that. Maybe I'll get a check.

[Matt Jones]

It's amongst the crazy stories. That one's up there. And I saw. You know, there's ever a wimpier person than JD Vance. The only one close is Mike Johnson, who was asked about it. And he goes, I'm not going to comment on active things with the Justice Department. I'm sure you followed that your whole life. They're just such cowards, all of them. Next.

[Billy]

I love.

[Drew]

But you didn't say this about Garfield. Yeah. You weren't saying this about William McKinley.

[Matt Jones]

What did you say when Harry Truman used the smooth Hartley Act? I didn't say anything, sir. What's next?

[Billy]

All right, let's go to the Ebola outbreak in Central Africa. The World Health Organization says the scale of this Ebola outbreak warrants serious concern, following 500 suspected cases and 130 deaths. This is originating in the Congo and Uganda. The strain is called Budi Baggio.

[Matt Jones]

What?

[Billy]

Buddy Baggio. And there is no specific treatment or vaccine for it yet.

[Matt Jones]

That's not good. Booty Baggio.

[Billy]

Yeah, that's how I said it. The World Health Organization calls it a public health emergency of international concern with one American who has already tested positive in the DRC. Now, if you remember, Ebola from 2014.

[Matt Jones]

So is it in the Congo or is it in the drc? Because the DRC is like, supposedly the most dangerous country in the world already. The.

[Billy]

Before Ebola, I believe it's in the drc.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. Well, you talk about you do not want a vacation. Like, that's the most dangerous country in the world. And also now they have Ebola, so not a lot of direct flights. I mean, it's sad. I feel like Ebola comes around, though, every few years.

[Drew]

Yeah. I feel like I was. When I was younger, there was an Ebola scare, and then I didn't really hear much about it.

[Matt Jones]

And national. I remember, like, those magazines where they'd say aliens were dating Dolly Parton. They were big on. They were big on Ebola and flesh eating virus. Do you remember the flesh eating virus? Because that scared me when I was a kid. And then I realized that wasn't real news.

[Drew]

Beep. Right there at the grocery counter.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. Because you'd be like, waiting for your mom to check out and they'd be like, ebola's gonna eat your face. And you go, oh, yeah, no.

[Drew]

And then you'd be like, but also, aliens are dating Dolly Parton. Like, no one's talking about this. And it's right here at the register next to the chewing gum.

[Matt Jones]

So. Yeah. I mean, that's unfortunate.

[Drew]

It is. I mean, I don't want it to happen anywhere, but I hope it gets contained wherever it is. Obviously.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. You know, the World Health Organization, which I believe Robert Kennedy pulled us out of. Thank you. Hopefully they get on that. I mean, this is partially why you have to have things like the World Health Organization, because the DRC does not have enough money to figure out how to stop this. Right?

[Billy]

Well, yeah.

[Matt Jones]

And guess what? Viruses don't just go, well, we'll just stay in this country.

[Drew]

Where's the border? Can't cross that.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. This is why you need a World Health Organization for things like this.

[Billy]

The DRC has had 17 outbreaks of Ebola since 1976.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. Well, I don't know what the difference is between Congo and Democratic Republic of Congo. I do remember hearing you hear Democratic Republic of Congo, and you go, well, that's the better one. But it's worse, I believe.

[Drew]

Yeah. Well, hope they get that figured out.

[Matt Jones]

Me, too. What's next? Are we on number four?

[Billy]

Yeah, number four. And this is good for Drew. The city of Nashville was just awarded a Super bowl in the year 2030. The new Nissan stadium will be finished in February of 2027. The $2.2 billion dome will have a translucent roof, and Nashville will be getting their Super bowl in 2030.

[Matt Jones]

You happy about this?

[Drew]

Very happy. Going to find my way in there. Maybe. Maybe we're cover zero and still at that time, we're down here, but I will. I don't expect my team to be in it, but I'm very excited. Even though it will be utter chaos around there with everyone descending upon a city that's already grown too big.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. I mean, I don't know if Nashville. I don't know how it'll handle all of that. It's a circus every week already.

[Drew]

The hotel rooms, I didn't think they could get higher. They will be 10 times higher for them. Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

But, I mean, it's cool to have one. I say this close, but Indianapolis is just as close. But it doesn't feel like to me when it's in Indianapolis that it's the same. It'll feel like it's much closer.

[Drew]

And, you know, we were just in San Francisco, very scattered out, you know, like, we were at parties in one area. We're an hour from the actual game. Everything is just going to be.

[Matt Jones]

Bam. That'll be. Everything is right there. Yeah. I was watching that.

[Drew]

A press conference today, and it had, like, the super bowl committee, and the names on it were, like, Nate Brigazzi, Eric Church, Jim Nance. It's like all these celebrities on the committee. Eric Church is sitting in the front row while Jim Nance is talking.

[Matt Jones]

How did Nate Bergazzi end up being like, everything in Nashville goes through him?

[Drew]

Oh, yeah.

[Matt Jones]

Good for him. I would think the super bowl committee, though, should have people on who do business.

[Drew]

There were a few business.

[Matt Jones]

I mean, no offense to Eric Church,

[Drew]

but there were a few business names on there.

[Matt Jones]

Although. Did you see his speech?

[Drew]

I did.

[Matt Jones]

I thought it was great. I didn't know he gave the commencement address at North Carolina.

[Billy]

Okay.

[Matt Jones]

And he talked about the premise of it was basically like society tells you to become more and more individual, but really you need to Be more connected to actual humans, which is like a message I agree with. And then he sang a song.

[Drew]

I skipped over it, like, the first three times I saw it shared, but it just kept getting shared. I'm like, well, this must be really good, because it is everywhere. So I finally, I finally watched it.

[Matt Jones]

It was it. There's like, a minute of it that's kind of gone viral. That I think seemed really good. As opposed to the people who spoke at other universities. Is that one of your topics?

[Billy]

Yes, it is.

[Matt Jones]

Okay. I won't steal your thunder.

[Billy]

It's all right. We'll make it our next one.

[Matt Jones]

Okay.

[Billy]

The AI graduation kerfuffles that we've seen over the last week or so Glendale Community College is up in arms in Arizona.

[Matt Jones]

Oh.

[Billy]

This was major backlash when the AI powered name reading system malfunctioned during the ceremony, skipping dozens of graduates name as they walked across the stage. Initially, officials at the college said that they were just out of luck that they were not going to walk again. But they then reversed course, and they did have a human announce the names of the people.

[Matt Jones]

They said, you all are out of luck.

[Drew]

They said, sorry, sorry. Our system tied.

[Matt Jones]

Okay, so I love this video because I, I, I will admit I kind of felt bad for this woman because they got up and, like, people are just booing her, and she's like, so here's what's happening. We've lost all of your names, but you can get a picture. You graduated after four years, and you spent all this money, and here's your nice picture with it.

[Drew]

I need to know more about this AI system. Why did they not just have a human?

[Matt Jones]

Was that it is hard. And you're. You've done this, right?

[Drew]

I've been asked. I didn't do it.

[Matt Jones]

But you didn't do it.

[Drew]

My wife runs graduation to uk, so

[Matt Jones]

your wife runs graduation at uk. And Drew was asked to read names once.

[Drew]

Yes.

[Billy]

Oh, wow.

[Matt Jones]

And part of the reason people don't want to do it is it's hard.

[Drew]

Hard. Huge time commitment. You obviously, you want to take it very seriously. Not like Billy fumbling over pronunciations on here.

[Matt Jones]

You can't just go, mom. Like, you got to know it's Mom Chillivitz.

[Drew]

This could be the biggest moment of our lives, and it is for most of them, you want to take it seriously.

[Matt Jones]

So the more like foreign graduates you have, the more you're going to have to learn the names. And I think this school thought, well, rather than have a human go, we'll just have a computer because they know how to say it. Which, I mean, I understand the thinking, but I think that was a poor thought. Even if it had worked.

[Drew]

I can't believe I thought it worked. I asked Alexa to play a song, and she's, like, adding cucumbers to grocery lists. That's not what I said at all.

[Matt Jones]

But then it just doesn't work. And unlike with humans, where they can go, all right, well, Billy, can you fill in? What I don't understand, though, is, shouldn't they have had a backup list?

[Drew]

Absolutely. That's why I'm kind of mind blown they even thought this was going to work out.

[Matt Jones]

I mean, I would have just said, all right, Drew, just give your best attempt at it and let's go. That's better than nothing.

[Drew]

What was like, you know, normally there's someone at a microphone, maybe. Maybe at a little podium. Was it just, like Oz talking out over the thing?

[Matt Jones]

I don't think I saw a video of them actually reading the names. But then that wasn't the only one, right?

[Billy]

Correct. The other one I had was in the same state. At the University of Arizona, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was booed when discussing the rise of.

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Booed.

[Matt Jones]

The state, like, booed at an insane amount. And he wasn't the only one. There was another one I saw. Why would colleges think that? The thing that their graduates are most worried about now, which is computers taking their jobs, you could bring someone to graduation to promote that.

[Drew]

That, and you don't want your students using AI in class. Colleges probably should be pushing AI the farthest away.

[Matt Jones]

True. Yeah.

[Drew]

Like, we don't want you cheating, and we want you exc. Excited to graduate and go into the workforce, but instead, we're going to use it, set an example of it.

[Matt Jones]

This dude just gets booed, and he's like, they're going to tell you that AI taking your jobs is bad. No, it's good. It's a chance for you to do other things.

[Drew]

And you're like, I just paid tens of thousands of dollars for this moment,

[Matt Jones]

and you want me to become a weaver? Like, that was one of the more clueless things. Now, to that guy's credit, he kept going in the face of relentless booze.

[Billy]

Well, you can't just turn your tail and walk off stage, can you? You got to finish.

[Matt Jones]

I don't know. I might have been like, you know what?

[Drew]

I don't feel welcome here. I'm going to step away.

[Matt Jones]

Congratulations. Gone. All right, fine. You're right. This is bad.

[Drew]

Now let me play this. Eric Church Video for you.

[Matt Jones]

You think you just pull up the Eric Church.

[Drew]

Have you seen what happened at, uh.

[Matt Jones]

Actually, wait a minute. Bring me my guitar. And then you just start singing.

[Drew]

It's crazy to me. Colleges would bring it in like that.

[Matt Jones]

Tough, tough weekend for college graduations. I feel like when a college thing goes viral, chances are it's going to be bad more than good. I saw Shaquille o' Neal graduated. What took him so long that.

[Drew]

Oh, he got his master. Did you see how they read his name?

[Matt Jones]

Shaquille o'? Neal?

[Drew]

No, it was Shaquille. I hate Charles Barkley o' Neal is how they read it. Oh, I hate Charles Barkley at his. When he walked the stage.

[Matt Jones]

So that was a master's degree.

[Drew]

Yeah. And they introduced him as Shaquille. I hate Charles Barkley o'. Neal. Like, he had that dialed up.

[Matt Jones]

That's interesting. He got a master's degree. That's kind of cool.

[Drew]

He's got a lot going. He was a sheriff there for a while.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah.

[Drew]

Busy.

[Matt Jones]

He does not, however, take time to learn anything about the NBA.

[Drew]

He's been getting criticized a lot since they've switched.

[Matt Jones]

Celtics were playing in the playoffs, and he was like. He didn't know who Baylor Shireman was, who was like their sixth man this year.

[Drew]

Yeah, that. That show is getting criticized overall. He's a big part of it since switching that.

[Matt Jones]

It's not like once was, to be honest with you. You don't tune into them to get knowledge.

[Drew]

It's. You're there for Barclay and Chad.

[Matt Jones]

They have a segment called who he play with, who he played for. Sorry. You know, I mean, they're kind of acknowledging. We don't know. It's like when we're on. When I'm on ESPN and they go, all right, this is our WNBA segment. And I go, I don't know. I mean, because, like. Because we have a WNBA game every Sunday. And so they'll be like, we got a preview of the wings versus the sky.

[Drew]

Are you feeding me notes?

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[Matt Jones]

Honestly, in those. I don't even know what to say. Like, I don't. I pull up the rosters.

[Billy]

Who she play for?

[Drew]

There you go.

[Matt Jones]

First of all, what city are the wings in the sky? And start with that.

[Drew]

I don't think I could get the wings. Chicago's the sky, right?

[Matt Jones]

I think the wing. Yes. I think the wings are Dallas, maybe.

[Drew]

That sounds right.

[Matt Jones]

I want to, like, I'm. I'm pro wnba. I want it to do well, and I'll watch The game sometimes, but it feels like the franchises go in and out a lot. Yeah, they come and they go, and so it's hard for me to know. Let's see how many. Billy, look up how many teams are in the wnba. Let's see if. If Drew and I collectively can name the WNBA teams first, you got to tell me how many there are. Okay.

[Billy]

As of 20, 26, the WNBA has 15 teams.

[Matt Jones]

All right, let's see what we go. See what we can do. All right. New York Liberty 1. Indiana Fever 2. Dallas Wings 3. Chicago Sky 4.

[Drew]

Yep.

[Matt Jones]

Minnesota Links 5.

[Drew]

Yep. There's two. I watch closely.

[Matt Jones]

Go.

[Drew]

Washington Mystics for George Amore.

[Matt Jones]

6.

[Drew]

Atlanta Dream.

[Matt Jones]

I mostly follow the Kentucky Las Vegas Aces.

[Drew]

Aces.

[Matt Jones]

Phoenix Mercury, 9, L.A. sparks.

[Drew]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

Is that right?

[Billy]

Yes, that's correct.

[Drew]

Got the Lakers.

[Matt Jones]

All right, so we only have one.

[Drew]

I got one Seattle Storm.

[Billy]

That's correct.

[Matt Jones]

Let's just do the 11. Okay.

[Drew]

There's a Toronto.

[Matt Jones]

Used to be a Connecticut Sun. Is it still there or did they don't.

[Billy]

This list. Yes.

[Drew]

Yeah, they're still there.

[Matt Jones]

Now we're at 12.

[Drew]

Toronto's team is on the tip of my tongue. There's, like, alliteration with it.

[Billy]

You're correct on that.

[Drew]

Toronto Tamales.

[Billy]

I have a good golf swing. I have good tempo.

[Drew]

That's it.

[Matt Jones]

Oh, I would not have known that

[Drew]

there's a. I just saw it very recently.

[Matt Jones]

Toronto.

[Drew]

Yeah, I think that's what they've always been called because I remember thinking. I've never heard.

[Matt Jones]

I would never have gotten Toronto tempo. So that. We have two more. Right.

[Billy]

Both on the West Coast.

[Matt Jones]

Okay, so we did la. Do you think there's a. So we were West Coast. San Francisco. You did Seattle. Portland. No.

[Drew]

Oh, there's a Portland team. They are the. I don't have that one. There's a Portland team.

[Matt Jones]

I would not know that one.

[Billy]

Portland Fire.

[Drew]

Yeah, I didn't have that.

[Matt Jones]

What about. I thought it was Chicago Fire. No, that's another. Scott, by the way, did they just put all public services of Chicago on tv?

[Drew]

Now there's Nashville Fire. We're getting new.

[Matt Jones]

There's a Chicago Peace.

[Drew]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

What is it about Chicago? It's so interesting.

[Drew]

Film industry cheap.

[Matt Jones]

There's one more. I mean, San Francisco. San Francisco.

[Billy]

Golden State.

[Matt Jones]

Golden State. I have no idea.

[Billy]

The Valkyries.

[Matt Jones]

Oh, I have heard of those.

[Drew]

Look at us.

[Matt Jones]

Okay, so we knew more WBA than we thought.

[Drew]

Pretty good. I'm pretty locked in on the Kentucky women. Big fan of George A. Moore.

[Matt Jones]

George A. Moore.

[Drew]

There's a few more scattered around. But like those are some big names. I'm excited about George Amore's first season Toronto Tempo.

[Matt Jones]

Would I did that never hurt?

[Drew]

Well, the only reason I knew it

[Matt Jones]

because they knew they got to be new.

[Drew]

That's what they used to be. Something else because I remember I was watching sports here and they said it

[Billy]

and I'm like, I've never heard they joined in 26. So this year.

[Matt Jones]

Okay, that would explain the Portland all right, what's next?

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you guys see the video from the Idaho Air Show? I did the collision of the two fighter jets.

[Matt Jones]

But they got there, they were alive. Right?

[Billy]

Everybody's fine. Yeah. All four crew members ejected safely. Three of the four unhurt, one being treated for non life threatening injuries. Each plane cost $67 million. But it is, if you haven't seen it, an interesting video. When the guys ejected from the plane, like they were almost sideways when they ended up happening and everybody was fine.

[Matt Jones]

So if they hit each other, I guess how did he have time to get out?

[Drew]

They kind of got tangled and were spinning before there was any kind of fire explosion. So they probably knew this isn't ending well.

[Matt Jones]

Okay. So if you just hit a plane head on, you're not going to be able to.

[Drew]

This was more. They were in la, you know, they fly like inches from each other. They kind of just linked up and got tangled while spinning.

[Matt Jones]

Do you think the federal government should be in these air shows?

[Drew]

Well, I did it, remember, so I enjoyed it.

[Billy]

Oh, yeah.

[Drew]

Oh, and to that point, I have a firsthand thing of the. I flew with the Blue Angels. Yeah. I had to get a training course on how to eject myself if there's an accident.

[Matt Jones]

So you would have been able to eject yourself?

[Drew]

Well, in theory. There was a knob between my legs and it wasn't covered. If I had pulled it, they were like, it will shoot you straight up if you pull that. But then I was like, well, what happens when I get up there with my parachute? And they're like, this pulls you to the right, this pulls you to the left. All right, let's get in there. And I'm like, well, I hope we sure don't need that.

[Matt Jones]

So you could have landed anyway.

[Drew]

Yeah, I would have had to have parachuted myself down. I could have pulled that lever. It was right in front of me. But the whole parachuting down by myself,

[Matt Jones]

what do you Think about doing it.

[Drew]

No, I took a picture of it, like, right in front of me. I didn't want to get anywhere near it.

[Matt Jones]

Wow.

[Billy]

Did you pass out at any point?

[Drew]

I didn't at the very end because they asked me, was it a pleasurable experience? Oh, I loved it. The guy before me, he went up and came right back down. They gave you the option and they were like, what do you want? We have a full tank of gas. It's committed to you. It's paid for. I was like, well, let's run it out. He's like, how aggressive do you want it? I was like, I want the whole experience. And then at the. We did the speed of sound, he did, like, motionless, like in space where things are just floating in front of me. But at the very end, he was like, I'm going to try to make you pass out. And I. My. My curtains were closing, but I didn't go all the way down. But I mean, everything started getting black around me because he was just spinning so hard at a low.

[Matt Jones]

See, I don't. That would. Does not sound pleasurable to me at all.

[Drew]

And there's a video on my face. I watch it occasionally. I don't go out, but you can see me.

[Matt Jones]

I'm starting to look pretty clueless. Yeah, you showed me that once.

[Drew]

Well, but the pulling the lever thing, you know, they're professionals, and I'm glad they handled it well. But in my case, I had this image of I'm just going to be up somewhere above Owensboro, Kentucky, trying to figure out how to use a parachute on the fly.

[Matt Jones]

That would be. Do you like air shows?

[Billy]

They're fine. I mean, I've been to Thunder a few times, so I've seen that. But I don't have a yearning to go back to see the planes.

[Drew]

The one in Dayton's pretty big. I've been to that before. Sorry.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. I feel like, though, the risk versus reward, like, when you see them flying

[Drew]

really close, it's insane.

[Matt Jones]

But you're like, well, that's cool, but I wouldn't want anyone to die for this moment that I'm having right here,

[Drew]

sitting here eating my corn dog.

[Matt Jones]

Like, it just feels like very dangerous for the pleasure that it gives people.

[Drew]

I get why they do it to get you excitement and, you know, believing in what they have. But.

[Matt Jones]

And I understand it's a good recruiting tool, I'm sure. I mean, a lot of what people do like that is to recruit, and I get that. I'm fine with that.

[Drew]

But, like, in the case of. That's an expensive.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, well, it's only 1/10 of Trump's commission.

[Billy]

Well, besides the last two years, there was on average two people that died at an air show every year in the United States.

[Drew]

It seems way too high.

[Matt Jones]

It does seem. All right, what's next? What number are we on?

[Billy]

We're on number seven.

[Matt Jones]

Seven. Okay.

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[Drew]

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[Matt Jones]

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[Drew]

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[Billy]

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[Matt Jones]

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[Billy]

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[Matt Jones]

I'm going to say 4:30.

[Billy]

Close. 455.

[Drew]

I was going to go 449.

[Billy]

That's up nearly $1.60 since February of this year and nearing the highest it's ever been in the United States. The war in Iran has gone past the 60 day requirement under the War Powers act for the President to seek the authorization of Congress for the use of military force.

[Matt Jones]

And he's just ignoring that.

[Billy]

Just ignoring it. The Senate on Tuesday advanced a resolution to halt military action in Iran, but

[Matt Jones]

the only reason it passed was because four Republicans didn't show up to vote,

[Billy]

including the one that was just because

[Matt Jones]

they were running for reelection, Louisiana. So what was interesting about that is it would not have passed had everyone showed up, but some of them, you know, this is only overseeing whether or not our nation should be at war. And the senators are like, hey, I'm busy.

[Drew]

I saw one of them.

[Matt Jones]

I'll get around to it directly.

[Drew]

His name escapes me. But one of them flipped just because Trump endorsed his opponent and he lost to him. But I guess he still has 60 days or whatever. So he flipped onto it.

[Matt Jones]

Cassidy, the guy from Louisiana. Yeah.

[Drew]

So it's so petty. But we're dealing with war here.

[Matt Jones]

Well, that's kind of what's like on the one hand, I guess it's like, okay, now that they don't have to run for reelection because they've lost, they can vote their conscience. On the other hand, it's a pathetic state where we are in the sense of you only vote your conscience if you can't win. Like you are completely willing to vote to send people to war so long as you get reelected. And the moment you know you can't get reelected, then you'll be like, well, I don't think we should do it.

[Drew]

You find your conscience on the way.

[Matt Jones]

Conscience as to whether or not we should send Americans to war is based on whether or not you win the primary. Like how pathetic is that?

[Drew]

Yeah, it's almost like they're all self centered.

[Billy]

But that's not new.

[Drew]

Right?

[Billy]

People have always.

[Matt Jones]

It's not new, but I feel like it is. I feel like it is almost to the extent there were people like me that were idealist. I think what is happening though is the very few idealists we have were just voting out of office. I mean, they're all just like, it's get in line or get out. And the Democrats do a version of that too. We have a little more range people can have. But like take John Fetterman. John Fetterman has kind of become. He votes with the Republicans sometimes and Democrats. He'll never win again in Pennsylvania. He's done. But he still votes with The Democrats like 90% of the time. But that for many people that's not enough. It has to be 100% or you're gone. That's the way they act. Yeah.

[Drew]

What about that premise of, you know, what your people want you to do for them?

[Matt Jones]

Like not even on people's minds. There's no moment where they're like, I mean, the greatest example of this, honestly, we'll never have an example as stark as the Epstein files. How many people could we go out on the street and go, how many of you think that the Epstein files should be covered up? Do you think you could get 10% of Americans to say yes? No, not at all. But yet when it comes up for a vote, they vote it down.

[Billy]

People voting are afraid of what's going to come out.

[Matt Jones]

No, they're afraid of Trump. Maybe it's both, but that's the big thing. They don't want to get yelled at.

[Drew]

I don't think if you want to treat, you'd find one person that wants it covered up.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, maybe Derek Dooley. I don't know. I don't know anything about Derek. I think Derek Dooley. Wasn't that the coach we beat when we played Matt Roark at wide receiver?

[Drew]

Yeah, the timeline's about right.

[Matt Jones]

I think he was the coach that lost to us when we did not have a quarterback. And unlike Lynn Bowden, Matt Roark had never played quarterback. Imagine that, by the way, was the most Kentucky football thing that's ever happened. We lose to Tennessee 31 straight years and we finally break the streak when we don't even play normal.

[Drew]

It wasn't even like a star wide. It wasn't like we move Lynn Bowdoin over.

[Matt Jones]

It was like he wasn't fast. He was holding him over.

[Drew]

He's like, you know I can't throw right.

[Matt Jones]

He couldn't throw. He wasn't fast and he was not an option to run.

[Drew]

Got it done. One and oh.

[Matt Jones]

And yet he got our first win over Tennessee in over 30 years.

[Drew]

Gets carried off the tennis court and

[Matt Jones]

that guy wants to run for Senate. The guy that lost there couldn't be

[Drew]

Kentucky football, but thinks he can win a Senate.

[Billy]

All I remember is his pants. He had the brightest orange pants.

[Matt Jones]

Oh yeah, he did. He did. Well, good luck to him. What's next?

[Billy]

A couple more here. Pizza Hut is upping the nostalgia factor. The company announced this week they are redecorating almost 100 different locations now. They're going to put the checker boards across the country. Red checkered tablecloths, nice red roof, nice vinyl booths, Tiffany style lamps. The old salad bar is coming back. The red plastic cups will be there. Even the old Pac man machines are going to be there bringing back the Pac man machine. They're also bringing back the book it program where Shannon's favorite thing learned how to read. Will you go back to a Pizza Hut?

[Matt Jones]

First of all, I've always been pro Pizza Hut. I don't know when Pizza Hut became a negative thing. I mean, I'm not going to Pizza Hut if I'm in a place that has really good pizza. Like I'm not going to New York. But if I'm in Middlesboro, I'll eat a Pizza Hut pizza any day of the week.

[Drew]

I like their breadsticks too. That was like a tradition with my aunt and uncle. We'd go sit at the checkerboard table. I think I was in the book club. Maybe we're lucky enough there's a buffet. If not, that's fine. I'll order stuffed crust. When I get to get the old basketballs for the NCAA tournament.

[Matt Jones]

When I was in middle school birthday parties, the cool kids had them at the Pizza Hut like four in the afternoon on a Thursday.

[Drew]

Maybe we should just go to Pizza Hut.

[Matt Jones]

Didn't we go to Pizza Hut?

[Drew]

We did about once a week. When almost in Louisville. Well, the kstv, there's one around the corner. So lunch break we'd go hit up the Pizza Hut buffet.

[Matt Jones]

That's right. And the Pizza Hut buffet was excellent. Did they say they're bringing that back?

[Billy]

They said they bring back the salad bar.

[Matt Jones]

I don't know that it didn't see that when you need the buffet, the buffet was good because. And then you'd wait, you'd be like, when they gonna bring out some New pizza.

[Drew]

And I'd sit there, wait as long as it took. I'll be 20 minutes on that. That's fine.

[Matt Jones]

Is the place. What's the name of the place where you can get like all the pizza you want for $6? Probably CC. They still exist anywhere or did Covid just.

[Drew]

There might be a couple, but I don't know of any around here.

[Billy]

It's been a while since I've been.

[Matt Jones]

Dude. I would see there was a guy in my fraternity who cc's would see coming and they'd be like, oh, no.

[Drew]

Got thrown out of a cc's one time.

[Matt Jones]

Remember that? You did too much.

[Drew]

Me, though. I went with a competitive eater. He was training. They. They brought a box to the table and they're like, you can fill this up, but you have to leave. Because it was. If I. If I made up a number, wouldn't be high enough with how much he ate.

[Matt Jones]

Wow. He told him, you can get as much as you, but you got to get out of here.

[Drew]

He was like ranked nationally and he went to uk. Wow. Also could put down a Chinese buffet.

[Matt Jones]

Are there any more? All you can eat pizza buffets in Lexington.

[Drew]

Yeah.

[Billy]

Gatti Town is still open.

[Matt Jones]

Ryan endorses them, right?

[Drew]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

Okay. All right. Well, that's. That's good.

[Drew]

He never had a bad time at Gatti Town. Been a while for me, but I always.

[Matt Jones]

The Mr. Gaddy's in Campbellsville. We could do a show there. A lot.

[Drew]

That always comes to mind.

[Matt Jones]

I like that one.

[Drew]

Madisonville had one growing up. It's not there anymore, but that was a big part of my childhood.

[Matt Jones]

So CC's is out. No more CC's to my knowledge. I was telling somebody this. This is about. This has nothing to do with pizza. But I was thinking about this last night. When I was a kid, Mexican restaurants, that was really not a thing. Like Chi Chi's was in Lexington and that was a treat. People were like. They got food from the other side of the country. You know, the one below us. They got those. And you can wear sombrero. Like it was like exciting. You go to Chi like you. You. You couldn't go to Chi Cheese without a long wait, of course. But in a small town, there were no Mexican restaurants. And now you can't go 2 miles in rural Kentucky without hitting 16 Mexicans restaurants.

[Drew]

And people will go to the war for their favorites.

[Matt Jones]

And people love it.

[Drew]

There's a loyalty.

[Matt Jones]

Love it.

[Drew]

Yeah. Growing up, we would have to go to Evansville, Indiana. We'd have to cross A river to get Mexican food. And it was chi chi. I bet every birthday I have a Polaroid picture with the sombrero on. That was an event, but I can't remember.

[Matt Jones]

To have ended Trump's push on immigration would have just been, say, do you want all your Mexican restaurants to go away? Because in small towns like the Mexican restaurants, there are like seven in Middlesboro. And that has been an amazing cultural change because I don't. When I was in high school, there were none.

[Drew]

Madisonville's probably, you know, it's population 20,000 something. I think there's six of them, maybe more at this point.

[Billy]

We went to one.

[Drew]

Yeah. Bracero.

[Matt Jones]

I think the more disgusting they are, the better, within reason.

[Drew]

I've been to some pretty, pretty rough ones.

[Matt Jones]

But I'm just saying, like, if it's, if you, if it, if it's a place that says L or law and then just a word, hacienda.

[Drew]

Ours is El Bracero, which means the kitchen.

[Matt Jones]

El taquero. Right. El bonita. Like, it's going to be great.

[Drew]

You know, one thing that confuses me, though, is how did they all get together in their numbered system? They're all identical. Like, if you get the number seven at this one, you can go 200 miles away.

[Matt Jones]

Every single Mexican restaurant has a number. One is called a Speedy Gonzalez.

[Drew]

Gonzalez. I don't need a menu. Speedy Gonzalez. You've ever been here before? No.

[Matt Jones]

Good point. They're all independent, but they all have a Speedy Gonzalez.

[Drew]

And if you put this side by side, pretty much 1 through 30 are going to be similar.

[Matt Jones]

So you think there's like a small town Mexican restaurant database.

[Drew]

There's a committee

[Matt Jones]

where they go, all right, we're seeing the sales numbers. We're going to move eights to fours. They have to because they all line up and pollocaneros available everywhere.

[Drew]

It's one of my favorites.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, well, you got me. Craving has nothing to do with craving.

[Drew]

El Bracero now, but.

[Matt Jones]

All right, what's next?

[Billy]

All right, here's number nine. I want to tell you a guy, tell you guys about India's Ravir program. It's a program where the government is paying citizens to help in road accidents. Many ambulances in India have to go a large long distance and with bad traffic and.

[Matt Jones]

Oh, have you ever seen the traffic in India?

[Billy]

It's really hard to reach victims within an hour of the accident. So the government is paying Good Samaritan

[Matt Jones]

within an hour of the accident.

[Billy]

They can't even get to the accident hour. So the government is offering 25,000 rupees to Good Samaritans. That's about $250 in the United States for stopping to assist victims of road accidents. So they say medical training or not, we want you to stop and help. Whether that means applying first aid, moving victims to a safe place, arranging immediate medical help, or transporting the victims to a hospital, they are willing to give not just one person per accident, but multiple people up towards of $250 for helping after a road X.

[Matt Jones]

All right, I have a couple thoughts. One, you don't need training. So how do we know these people are helping?

[Billy]

We don't.

[Matt Jones]

Like, I mean, you could come over and just start like hitting their heart and, you know, they got a neck

[Drew]

injury and you're dragging them back to your.

[Matt Jones]

Like. I mean, I don't know. This seems to incentivize people who might not know what they're doing.

[Billy]

They say in this program you don't need medical training to help. It's not like if only.

[Matt Jones]

Second thing is. And I don't mean to be cynical, but it feels very right for fraud.

[Drew]

That's where I was going.

[Matt Jones]

It feels like you. Oh, no, I got hurt. Drew. Rescue me. Like, it feels like that's something that could. I mean, I'm sure there's. There need to be some controls for that.

[Drew]

Yeah. Maybe stage a little accident with your buddy and yeah. Save. Save their life in quotation.

[Matt Jones]

Better call Saul. That was how he got his start. Is they would backfire. No, he would have. He would pay these kids skateboarding to throw themselves in front of a car. And then the kid would like. He would act like he was going to sue, but then say give us whatever. And the person. So he would basically he recruited these two kids just to always just fling themselves in the cars.

[Drew]

Someone. Last time I was in Florida, I met someone and they were telling me they used to have a Florida Python program where you got money to kill pythons. But then people started breeding them at home to make more to then kill them. So they had to call off the program. That kind of made me think of this. Like people would create accidents so they could get the money.

[Billy]

The sentiment is any kind of help or treatment within the first hour. It's called the golden hour. Is drastically improves the chances of.

[Matt Jones]

But you know when you say any kind. So there's a. I don't know. Do you. Do you know the law about helping people? Have we ever talked about this before? So it's good I give this hypothetical in the class I teach at Georgetown. So let's say you are walking by a lake and you see someone drowning and you could go and get them, but you just don't. You just look. You. Let's say you look at them and you taunt them.

[Billy]

Okay.

[Matt Jones]

Do you think that should be a crime?

[Billy]

Well, the taunting's a little excessive.

[Matt Jones]

Would. But, I mean, what would you charge them with? Taunting?

[Drew]

I don't think that can be a crime.

[Matt Jones]

It's actually not. You have no duty as a citizen to help someone. Okay, so it's a lot of people, I don't know that they realize this. You have no duty to ever help anyone, to do anything. However, when you decide to help someone, you have a duty under the law, under civil law, to not do more harm. Meaning if you decide to go and help them and you trip and you both drown, or like that person drowns because you did something, you can then be sued. So you have a duty, once you decide to try to help somebody, to act within reasonable care, which is always like, some people go, well, that's weird, because we want people to give care, but in America, we actually might punish you.

[Drew]

You're now rolling the dice.

[Matt Jones]

Now, the reason those laws exist, though, is you don't want to incentivize people to go and give bad care, because then other people may be like, well, he's got it. So I'm just gonna. So a lot of people don't realize that's the law in America. You don't have a duty to help people, but if you do, you have a duty to, like, try your best.

[Drew]

Yeah, because I could see if someone drowning, you wouldn't want to punish them for not helping with, like, I can't swim. Like, what am I going to do? It'd be hard.

[Matt Jones]

Exactly. No, that's a very good analogy.

[Drew]

I'm not going to do any good here. So it'd be. You wouldn't want to punish that, and then it'd be hard to just go around proving if someone is able to help or not.

[Billy]

But if I pull in the drowning person and I break one of their ribs, could they sue me?

[Matt Jones]

It's all about whether or not it's reasonable. So, like, if you broke them, if it was reasonable that they broke, like, you know, the only way you could get them out was to pull them, and in the process, then no. Okay, but, like, if you were pulling them and you got mad at him and just punched him in the face, then it's on. You can't go. You don't get free licks in.

[Billy]

I tried to help. It didn't work.

[Matt Jones]

You don't get to be like, well, I helped you, and I just felt like it'd be fun to punch you on the way out.

[Drew]

It was the Heimlich. I don't know. He's got two black eyes. You're not boiling on him.

[Matt Jones]

So. So that's the law in America and in India, it'll be. Do you say how many rupees?

[Billy]

25,000 rupees, which is $250.

[Matt Jones]

Well, that feels like. That's an easy trans.

[Billy]

Like you can stay anonymous. You don't have to. Nothing has to be published.

[Matt Jones]

It's an easy exchange rate. Just move the zeros.

[Drew]

A lot of them. Too confusing. At least they've made that.

[Matt Jones]

I'm going to Canada. And a dollar of American Money is only $0.73 in Canada.

[Drew]

Thanks for the reminder. I've had Canadian money at home for five years.

[Matt Jones]

I'd save it. This is the worst time you could transit.

[Drew]

Just take it. I don't care. It's been in a desk drawer. It's not enough to matter. It's like 24 bucks.

[Matt Jones]

Just. I'll take it.

[Drew]

Yeah, go. Go buy you something. I've just been looking at it. It's not enough for me to go out of my way, but it's enough that you could buy something.

[Matt Jones]

I'll take it. I'll. I'll give some loonies and some toonies. I was gonna say, I'll get some loonies and some toonies to get some poutine.

[Drew]

Get it off my hands. It's been in Canada.

[Billy]

Nope. Nope. Never left the country.

[Matt Jones]

Do you want to?

[Billy]

Yeah, I just don't have a passport.

[Matt Jones]

Well, that's the first step. Have you ever contemplated getting a passport?

[Billy]

Yeah, I had one for a while. I got one when I was a kid, but we just never went anywhere but.

[Matt Jones]

Okay. Well, now. I mean, Keno. Canada is only six hours away.

[Drew]

Remember our Buffalo trip? We wanted to go and Billy didn't have a passport.

[Matt Jones]

Like, people don't realize how close can you. It is, dear. I say six, maybe it's seven or eight, but it's not many.

[Drew]

It's not too far from six. Windsor's pretty easy trip.

[Billy]

You've told me some horror stories about the Canadian border, so I just.

[Matt Jones]

Well, they can be rough, stern but fair.

[Drew]

But once you're in, it's awesome. You just got to get over that hump.

[Matt Jones]

You just got to get. My problem is getting in. Yeah, you know what? I didn't think about that. I wonder. I wonder if I'm on a list.

[Drew]

They're going to turn you right around.

[Matt Jones]

That would remember shame. If I fly in the Montreal airport and they're like, nope, you're like six

[Drew]

cars back in line and he sees you, he's like, nope, turn around. Let's see.

[Matt Jones]

Well, I was going to fly from New York to Montreal, but, you know, the last time I went to Canada, we had to. We had problems. Yeah,

[Drew]

you got a fake id. You got a fake passport.

[Matt Jones]

I do remember when that guy at the border in Canada, he looked at me and goes, so he was. He was like yelling at me and telling me. He was like, you will not. He was. He said, you can disrespect me. And then he goes, but you will not disrespect Canada. And I like, I. I could. I. I had to laugh. Like, that was such a ridiculous thing to say.

[Drew]

He was like, the supermounty, like the final boss of.

[Matt Jones]

And then my buddy came and talked to me. My buddy works for the federal government in law enforcement. And my buddy, like, talked to him, and then he decided. The guy says, leave me. And he goes, I want you to. To know something, son. I'm not letting you out because of you. I'm letting you out because of what law enforcement means to America. I was like, hey, well, thanks.

[Billy]

Good thing you had your buddy with him.

[Matt Jones]

All I did was hubby farted. That was it. And you giggled and I giggled.

[Drew]

Who doesn't laugh at a good fart?

[Matt Jones]

I challenge you when a Canadian border man is screaming. If your friend just farts, I challenge you not to laugh.

[Billy]

I challenge you to stay in the country this time.

[Matt Jones]

We'll see if Monday you get a phone call.

[Drew]

And I'm like, I'm stuck at me again.

[Matt Jones]

My friend, hubby's wife, he told me this. She got stuck in the Dallas Fort worth Airport for 19 hours with no lounge access. So she just had to eat meals and, like, just like sit and roam in the B terminal. That's. Think about how miserable that would be.

[Drew]

I've done almost 24 in Chicago. And I kept. I was mad because if they just told me it's canceled, I'd rent a car and drive. But it was like, hour. Yeah, hour.

[Matt Jones]

That's what was her. That was hers, too.

[Drew]

I was there an entire day.

[Matt Jones]

What do you do all that time?

[Drew]

I remember they brought cots out. I didn't take a cot. I tried to sleep a little bit,

[Matt Jones]

I think she told hubby she got Drunk at two different times.

[Drew]

I think I did the same. Had several meals.

[Matt Jones]

I think she spent like $175.

[Drew]

I read everything in Hudson News.

[Matt Jones]

Oh, Hudson News. Does Hudson News exist outside of airports? No, I don't think so. Like there's no Hudson bookstore somewhere else?

[Billy]

No, I don't think so.

[Matt Jones]

They also have Today show bookstores. Why does the Today show have bookstores?

[Drew]

I have no idea.

[Matt Jones]

Did you know that?

[Billy]

I didn't. I've never seen the Today Show.

[Matt Jones]

They exist. There's one, I think, in the Louisville airport.

[Drew]

Yeah, I've seen them.

[Matt Jones]

Why does the Today show have an have a bookstore and what else do

[Drew]

they have out there?

[Matt Jones]

The Today show is diversifying its business.

[Drew]

They have a Mexican restaurant in Harrodsburg.

[Matt Jones]

All right, well, nice job. It would have been nice if you had 10 pieces, but nine pieces of news still good.

[Drew]

I'm 90% caught up with the news.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah.

[Billy]

I'll leave the rest of you.

[Drew]

All right.

[Matt Jones]

The rest you can do on your own. We'll see you later.

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